Edinburgh Green PartyEdinburgh Green Party
This will be the first of our new format branch meetings, starting with a Green Talk from 7:30 to 8:25 which is open to the public online, followed by a short break then branch business until 9.00.
If you are not an Edinburgh branch member, sign up here to receive the Zoom meeting link >
If you are a branch member, we’ll email you the link during the week before the event – you don’t have to sign-up.
The American Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s dismantled legal segregation and expanded black enfranchisement in the United States, with the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act codifying their inspiring victories. But once there was little legal segregation left to defy, the insurgent Civil Rights Movement fell apart.
For many blacks, the Civil Rights Movement’s victories proved limited, even illusory. Although black people were formally full citizens, most remained ghettoised, impoverished, and politically subordinated, with few channels for redress.
During this time the Black Panther Party emerged and claimed to be the steward of the black community – its legitimate political representative – standing in revolutionary opposition to the oppressive ‘power structure’. But unlike many other organisations, the Panthers made common cause with the domestic anti-war movement and anti-imperialist movements abroad.
The Black Panther Party challenged police brutality, but also provided community help, such as education, tuberculosis testing, legal aid, transportation assistance, ambulance service, and the manufacture and distribution of free shoes to poor people.
The FBI described the party as “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country”.
Please join Edinburgh Greens and Chardine Taylor-Stone – feminist activist, writer and musician – to learn about the history of the Black Panthers and find out what the Greens and the wider left can learn from their struggle.
With Scottish Greens Full Council Meeting coming up on 1 March, we invite members to come and find out what’s on the agenda and what input you think Edinburgh Branch should give.
Online meetings are on Zoom and have closed captions enabled. Look out for details of how to join the online meetings in your monthly member e-news and reminder email.
If you need any more information, or have any ideas about any aspect of access or inclusion improvements that we can make at our events, please tell us.